GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |